William T. Wofford

William Tatum Wofford (28 June 1824-22 May 1884) was a Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Wofford was born in Habersham County in Georgia and after graduating from Franklin College in 1844 he became a Captain in the state militia during the Mexican-American War in 1847. He was mustered out of service in 1848 and worked as a planter, state legislator, and then a lawyer. Wofford became editor of the Cassville Standard newspaper in 1852.

Voting against secession before the American Civil War, Wofford offered his services to the Confederate States Army as a veteran of warfare. He served in North Carolina and Virginia shortly before being assigned to John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade. Wofford saw action in the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles but after the Battle of Gettysburg Wofford traveled to join James Longstreet's corps in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater. After the Siege of Knoxville he transferred to Virginia and commanded an army during the Battle of Guard Hill in Sheridan's Valley Campaign in 1864, fighting an inconclusive battle. Before the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of late 1864 Wofford moved to the South and commanded the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida until he surrendered in Resaca on 24 July 1865. His men were the last east of the Mississippi to surrender to the Union army during the Civil War.

After the war he was a delegate to the Georgia Constitutional Convention and he argued for African-American education and Confederate veterans' rights. He died in his home state of Georgia.